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 When on the main motorway from France to Barcelona, some cars are being stopped at the border for identity and luggage check. When going to Spain (Catalunya), there are several big rest areas on that road. You can either ask your driver to let you out in next to towns (with train stations) and cities along that road, such as [[Girona]] or [[Rubí]] and [[Sant Cugat]] (latter two are better options)where you can go to Bracelona by train, or get out of the car at a rest area and wait for another ride to Barcelona. A train ticket generally cost you between €1around €2,30 20 (Sant Cugat/Rubí) and €10   If you get dropped on the coast road leading to Barcelona (Girona11)it should be really easy to keep hitching through the towns and villages until the city. I did the last 60km on this road in 4 or 5 short lifts but never waited more than 2/3 mins, just hopped out of each car and thumbed the next one almost instantly wherever I was dropped. 

 === North towards [[Girona]], [[Figueres]], [[La Jonquera]], ([[France]]) {{Aes|AP-7}} === 

If you want to go further into France but only find a car going close to the border be careful about where you get dropped. See below experience at La Jonquera, last service station in Spaun. The first service station in France, Village Catalan just after le Boulou is totally dead, it looks like nobody stops there. If you can get a little further to Perpignan Sud Paeage, exit 42 and use a sign for Narbonne you should get a lift at least as for as La Palme Service station after exit 40, quite a good spot for a longer lift into France. ==== Option 1: C33 Motorway service station Gasolinera Galp Montcada Norte ==== Take a Renfe train from ''Barcelona-Passeig de Gracia'' (there are even more trains from ''Barcelona-Sants'') on the R2 or R2 Nord line, direction: Granollers Centre (R2) or Macanet-Massanes (R2 Nord). Get off at station ''Montcada i Reixac''. (This train Train will take you about 20 minutes and costs €2,15 (2014)). Exit the train station to the left, through the second exit in the direction of the train. Walk under the railways and pass through the station building. At the other side you will find yourself at a small shopping district with a one way street. Follow it to the right. Pass the church, traffic lights, and cross the pedestrian bridge. Once over the bridge, turn left and follow the fenced in school playground around to the right. You should now see the motorway above you and parking below the motorway. Continue following the motorway until you see the road dip down and to the right under the railroad. Go under the bridge. Up ahead and to your left you will see a very broken vertical turnstile and a sign saying "forbidden" (see a picture here: http://imgur.com/MLxJc29). Ignore the sign and follow the foot path to the right, to the service road along the motorway. This service road goes right into the back of a Gasolinera Galp Montcada Norte petrol station.<br/ >Hitch there by asking around, or with a sign where the exits converge. Keep in mind that the toll is only two kilometers ahead, so try for shorter distances to get past the toll and onto a different rest stop. [[User:sovereign|Sovereign]], after waiting for 15 minutes (standing, with sign) at the Galp station was told by an employee to fly a sign with "Girona" instead of "FR". Girona works far better and there is another station before and after Girona.

:This option worked very well for us (Steffi and Manu), the spot is easy Also you can get to find, the description above is very good! takes about half an hour form Passeig de Gracia, people were helpful at the same petrol station, we got a ride all the way by metro L11 till stop Torre Baró | Vallbona + 3 km walk next to Switzerland.:This option also worked well for me (Tarik) in Jan-14. I just waited for 15 minutes until a gracious Spanish couple gave me a ride river to Girona.:This option worked for me (Joel) too in June-15. Waited 20 minutes before I was picked up by some really friendly spaniards. The trouble for me was to get out of Spain (gave up after 4 hours) Montcada district and I was stuck just close to the border to France in La Jonquera before I finally had to get find a cab to Perpignan. Apparently -nobody- picks up hitch hikers just next to the border because this is a huge drug smuggling zone. Both rides I took before they clearly asked me if I had any drugs on me. I had no idea why but now I understand. My recommendation is that you find someone that goes all the way to France in train stop ''Montcada / Girona, because believe me, there is absolutely nothing to see in La Jonquera. (In hindsight I shouldi Reixac've just walked the remaining 5 kms to France where it's very easy to catch a ride.)Than follow directions as above.

When asking locals, ask how to walk to Hotel Bellaterra, as Spanish people are clueless about hitchhiking and any other question will be answered with useless answers about how to reach the motorway. (EDIT: the hotel is closed and you have to climb two gates to get to the rest area).<br/ > There are not too many drivers going north though, and the (Spanish) ones who are don't seem to be eager to pick up hitchhikers. Almost no traffic from Barcelona going north passes through here, so you miss out on all the French drivers - option 1 is probably much better.

:I tried today this central and easy to reach option 3 and waited only 5 minutes with two people and a huge Montgat sign to get a ride from Gran Via /Padilla street outside of Barcelona along the coast. The willing driver can stop on a marked area. See a [http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&qOption 4: Petrol station Barcelona Beach =barcelona+bullfight&sll=51.344339,10.415039&sspn=13.601146,38.847656&ie=UTF8&cd=1&ll=41.400646,2.18356&spn=0,359.998814&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=41.400771,2.183726&panoid=3eh7O_7dn2E6LO-SVdRxKw&cbp=12,259.6,,0,12.74 photo-link]. In theory only cars on the right hand side lane of the 3 lanes going out of Barcelona can use this "stop possibility" marked on the street, but our driver crossed the still red traffic light to make it to the right even from the middle lane.<br/ >:I've also tried "Option 3," but I believe it's much too busy a street to get a ride. Also, the drivers will have to do some interesting manoeuvers in order to pick you up. If you can blackride the metro, I would go elsewhere.<br/ >:There is construction work going on (April 2016) so the cars really can't stop or pull over anywhere anymore. A little bit further, shortly behind the train station, the cars can pull over to the taxi/bus lane. One time it worked, we were three people going to Palamós, the other time it was only me going to Figueres and nobody stopped even after waiting for 40 minutes. Walking even further is possible but there are many cars going in another direction, I recommend trying another option.

==== Option 4: Petrol station Barcelona Beach ====Take bus H16 from ''Plaça Catalunya'' direction Fòrum and get off at ''Cementiri de l'Est''. Head towards the beach, cross over the highway bridge, and you will see McDonalds McD and the Repsol petrol station on the left.

==== Option 1: AP-7 Motorway Service Station Porta de Barcelona (CastellbispalCastellbisbal) ====Take Renfe train R4 direction ''St.Vicente de Calders'' from either ''Barcelona Sants'', ''Plaça Catalunya'' or ''Arc de Triomf'', to ''Castellbisbal''.

Take Renfe train R4 direction ''St.Vicenç de Calders'' from either ''Barcelona Sants'', ''Plaça Catalunya'' or ''Arc de Triomf''Note: If you have a map, and try to find the directions below on it, you will find that they make no sense. It is very likely that your map does NOT display the brand new high-speed train tracks that pass 10m north of the train station. DO NOT follow your map, follow the instructions. Or follow the map link that is provided below.''Castellbisbal''.

If you are trying to get to Madrid and you use this route, stay on the side going south and try putting Lleida on your sign. [http://maps.google.de/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=BV-1501&daddr=BV-1501+to:41.468055,1.978912&hl=en&geocode=FY3TeAIdtQoeAA%3BFUzeeAIdvAceAA%3B&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=Option 2&sz=16&via=1&sll=41.469149,1.978118&sspn=0.007943,0.01929&ie=UTF8&ll=41.471769,1.97505&spn=0.007942,0.01929&t=h&z=16 Way to walk] and [http://www.wikimapia.org/#yAP-7 Motorway Service Station Bellaterra =41469502&x=1974599&z=16&l=0&m=s&v=2 Location]

:This place is not recommended for going south or west. A worker at the petrol station says that people arrive there and end up sleeping 1 or 2 days. Also the entrance from the highway to this petrol station is 10km before the petrol station. Most of that cars that passed in this place were going to barcelona center... Use option 1, much better.

Take metro L1 (red) Red line to ''Bellvitge''station. Turn right out of the station and walk south ≈300m along Rambla Marina to the Avenida de laDe La. Turn right and walk west ≈200m to the Galp petrol station.

:We took a metro to the second last stop of the red line (Bellvitge) and walked three minutes on Rambla Marina === North West towards We then hitched a couple of minutes in the [http://goo.gl/maps/E5I8X traffic lights[Manresa] and got our first ride (if you go up to the Granvia there is a petrol station right there [http://goo.gl/maps/Zkabc petrol station] but we did not know it). After four more fairly easy rides we were in Valencia. --, [[User:Astikain|AstikainAndorra]] ([[User talk:Astikain{{Aes|C-16}} {{E|talk]]) 15:29, 24 April 2013 (CEST)9}} ===

:''Please Pls add information if you have experience hitchhiking a ferry there.''info

The Barcelona public transport system consists of an underground metro, trams, area trains, and buses. Day passes are a little more than 5 euro, and cover the whole transport system, buses, trams, metro, and area trains (Rodalies and [http://www.fgc.net/eng/index.asp FGC]). Single passes are for the metro only, and cost eur 2.00. The best deal is the T-10, which is 10 rides for 11 eur (1.10 per ride). There is also a pink ticket for older Spanish people 10 rides for 4 eur, but dont show this ticket to gate guards/ticket inspectors. These tickets will also let you into the RENFE system, but you risk getting controlled if you go very far (more than 2 hours or so).  The entrances sometimes have turnstiles and sometimes have sliding electronic gates. It is possible to jump or slide underneath, or climb over the electronic gates. If you get caught your risk is 40-100 euro - if you're not able to talk your way out of it. Control happens sometimes at the exits of stations, very rarely on the trains.Walk out by stairs slowly and look forward for them

Free showers at beach with cold water :) Food '''Parròquia de Sant Agusti''' (Carrer de l'Arc de Sant Agustí, metro Liceu) healty food each day except thursday at 10:15. Come half hour earlier to pick up number. Except poor and sketchy people here.

Shower Free hot shower and clothes Carrer de Marie Curie 22 (metro Lluckmajor ) pick up number 8:00-10:00 each workday and shower from 10:00-12:00 and or Av. Meridiana 197 (metro Navas) pick up number at 16:00 each workday to shower next morning.

==== Other places ====*Sleep Ciutadella park is closed at night, but may be accessed by the roundabout entrance facing the Arc de Triomf. The bars of the '''Colom monument''' fence near the port at the end of gate are wide enough to slip through if you're not very big. You'Las Ramblas'', although re unlikely to be disturbed during the night but the traffic nearby can be quite noisyPolice might wake you up after 8am and ask you to move on. You can sleep near statues of lions Another user got inside and as long as pitched a tent. It is safer if you are low-key about it, both police not alone. Lot of criminals and junkies also sleep there dont talk and locals probably won't disturb dont trust anyone. Attach your stay. Hitchhiker [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]] did this is October 2006 and had no problems bag to tree with thieves, but discretion is wise nonethelessrope when you sleep.*Port Vell area: There is  Small park just in front of the Cosmo Caixa Museum where you can easy use a fantastic spot to sleep near Port Velltent. By public transport, at a place called La Rambla del Mar. To you can get there, follow Las Ramblas all the way L7 to the bottom end''Av. Tibidabo'', go past than walk 5 minutes direction top of the hill, turn on the columbus column in ''Carrer d'Isaac Newton'' just before the direction of bridge on the waterleft and continue. You will come to find this huge building, with a wooded 'deck' kind big submarine in front of area where a lot of tourists passit. There When you have museum on your back, submarine on your right, there is a largesome [http://goo.gl/maps/MxfX2 stairs] in front of you, old square building herebetween entrance of museum and submarine, you will see the port police stationmain door of this park after few stairs, it might be close if its late, and next so you can go to it there is a big carpark. About 20 metres passed the end top of this stairs, than jump on the left side, go under the carpark stairs to the other side, and there is a small wooden looking building that the hot dog vendors in spot. 2 options: (1) near the area use bench, better for supplies. and there are 3 more further on down the port vell areaground, but you might be visible at the morning, just keep walking and you'll see them. It has woke up by a garage style door on guardian; (2) right after geting out from under the front. On stairs, the top of this there ground is a large white canvas shitty, you might need good stake to setup your tent, that looks kind of like a teepeemostly in windy time, you cant miss it. It might be hard with just one personfrom there, but its easy to get on the roof of guy who open the building with 2 people, under door at the tent thing. Its warmmorning, drycan't see you, out of sight and he don't go into the tourists or police wont notice park at all, so you if youre carefulcan sleep till late!  Take the metro from "Placa de Catalunya" to Canyelles station, walk about 200 yards uphill from the station and find some nice hills to camp/sleep out/hang a hammock. [[Jugglehitch]] and 3 friends slept here for 1 week (You can meet wild boars  Take a late train to the park in 2001the North-West of Barcelona. For example, you can take the structure may not be S2 to ''Sabadell'' (ticket zone 1) leaving from ''Plaça de Catalunya'' and getting off at ''Baixador de Vallvidrera'': there anymore)is a big park which is nearly like a forest, with no hassle and you will find a very good and lonesome place to stay within 500 meters from anyonethe station. A bit dusty  Parc de la Pau small and clean park next to the beatch (15 min from metro to station Besos Mar, but perfect in every other waynext to Dechatlon shop, street Career de la Pau)...  Mountains next to Camp De Futbol Canyelles (metro Valldaura and next to Institut Escola artístic Oriol Martorel, street Camí Antic de Sant Llàtzer)

=== Sleep Thieves === When staying on the beach in Barcelona, you may notice thieves. They walk around and observe people on the beach for hours before stealing anything. Even though they aren't usually hostile or confrontational, they can steal clothes off your back while you're asleep. The only sure way to keep your things safe is to bury it in the sand and sleep on top of it. Sleeping with your head on your bag is just not enough. These thieves are very professional, and they look for people sleeping rough not just on the beach but in the central districts too. === Wild boars ===

If you Wild boars are abundant in trouble call police immediately!!Barcelona, there are hundreds of them. Stay away from the canes. this is where they live and sometimes they spend the night there. Don't take food to your place. on't provoke wild boars!They unafraid of humans. If something happens, back off slowly. Wild boar usually don't attack unless they feel threatened. They will probably stay away from you but they will come to sniff your tent once you're inside... I did nothing and they went away... It's best if you stay next to a tree that you can climb on if anything happens. If you see a mother and her cubs stay the fuck away.

When staying on the beach in Barcelona, you may notice '''thieves'''. They walk around == Free internet ==Free wireless and observe people on the beach for hours before stealing anything. Even though they aren't usually hostile or confrontational, they can steal clothes off your back while you're asleep. The only sure way to keep your things safe is to bury it in the sand and sleep on top of it. Sleeping Apple demo computers with your head on your bag is just not enough.limited internet access at Apple Store (Plaza Catalunya)